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Recent Examples of bitten
Other big-ticket items bit the dust this year.
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Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
However, once his guardian arrived at the day care center, the information they were told was allegedly changed, as it was revealed that the boy had been bitten by a copperhead snake.
—Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Last year, 47 people were bitten in unprovoked attacks.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
In 2010, while playing for Ajax in the Netherlands, Suarez bit the shoulder of Eindhoven’s Otman Bakkal and was handed a seven-game ban by the Dutch football federation.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Researchers in the Netherlands took mosquitoes to a music festival to learn why some people get bitten more than others.
—Eva Amsen, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Saleh Bakri was bitten by a scorpion.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
The 4-year-old reportedly told police Gardner kicked, slammed and bit the boy before pushing him down a flight of stairs.
—Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
An 8-year-old boy was flown to a Miami trauma center after a shark bit him in the ocean off the Florida Keys on Labor Day, authorities said.
—Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
However, once his guardian arrived at the day care center, the information they were told was allegedly changed, as it was revealed that the boy had been bitten by a copperhead snake.
—Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Last year, 47 people were bitten in unprovoked attacks.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
In 2010, while playing for Ajax in the Netherlands, Suarez bit the shoulder of Eindhoven’s Otman Bakkal and was handed a seven-game ban by the Dutch football federation.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Researchers in the Netherlands took mosquitoes to a music festival to learn why some people get bitten more than others.
—Eva Amsen, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Saleh Bakri was bitten by a scorpion.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
The 4-year-old reportedly told police Gardner kicked, slammed and bit the boy before pushing him down a flight of stairs.
—Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
An 8-year-old boy was flown to a Miami trauma center after a shark bit him in the ocean off the Florida Keys on Labor Day, authorities said.
—Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bitten
sucked
Verb
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Prevention tactics On a recent weekday morning, a Sanimax driver pulled up to Concord Lanes and sucked out used cooking oil from a large bin on the side of the bowling alley.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
19 Sep. 2025
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In places as far-flung as Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Serbia, from antiquity to the present day, tornadoes have sucked up aquatic creatures by the bushel and carried them several miles away.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Bitten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bitten. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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